Anchoring attachment for safety-pins.



W. S. HUNKINS.

ANCHORING ATTACHMENT FOR SAFETY PINS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29. 1914.

. Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

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WILLIAMS. HUNKINS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

ANCHORING ATTACHMENT FOR SAFETY-PINS.

in my former uetters Patent No. 738,542,

dated September 8, 1903.

The object of the present invention. is to 7 improve the aforesaid construction by providing a combined, anchorage and bearing attachment for a safety pin, so arranged as to be reversible, and so constructed that it may be applied to fabric without danger of cutting the same. These and other advantages will be apparent from an examination of the accompanying drawing and a reading of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation relatively enlarged of my device, as it would appear in use; Fig. 2 is a section of the line 2 ,2; and Fig- 3 is a plan view of a blank from which the anchor attachment may be made.

The device is shown in this preferred form in the accompanying drawing, in which 1, 2'are parallel spaced tubes connected at their ends by bars 3, 3, the said bars serving to space the tubes properly, whereby a fabric tape such as 4: may be passed through the anchor and serve as a supporting means therefor. The tubes 1, 2 are preferably made so as to have bores of different sizes, as best seen in Fig. 2, whereby the device may be employed with safety pins made of wire of different sizes.

One way of making the device is to employ a sheet metal blank, substantially such as shown in Fig. 3, onepart 2 of which may be rolled up to form a tube 2, the part 1 being rolled up toform the tube 1. As will be seen, the supporting tape 4: may be passed Specification ofLetters Patent.

S. HUN KINS,

Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

Application filed July 29, 1914. Serial No. 853,813. 7'

around either the tube 1 or 2, as desired, so that it'is possible to elect which size oftube shall be exposed to receive the safetypin 5. The function of the anchor, as in my former construction, is to afford a bearing for the pin portion of a safety pin throughout a substantial portion of its length, so that the downward strain upon the pinv will not buckle the latter so as to withdraw the pin from the sheath 6. To this extent the device performs the same function as my earlier construction referred, to. The present improvement, however, affords the advantages of decreasing'the wear upon the supporting tape and of making the device reversible, and of enabling safety pins of different sizes to be used effectively in connection with the bearing member.

It should be understood that various mod-;

ifications can be made without 7 departure from the spiritor scope ofthe invention, so

long as a finished device comprises in its broadest aspect two parallel spaced tubes one of which will furnish a rounded non-cutting bearing for the suspending tape, the other furnishing a'bearing for the pin. 7

It 1.8 not essential in all'instances that the part1 shall be strictly tubular or adapted to receive the safety pin.- It is however essential that this part1, whichis termed the tube because in its preferred form it is strictly tubular, shall be sorolled up as to produce a smooth rounded edge where engaged by the fabric, thereby avoiding the abrasion or cutting of the latter.

hat I claim is,

In an anchor attachment for safety pins, two substantially parallel spaced tubular members connected at their ends, one tubular member being arranged to receive the safety pin, the other constituting a bearing for a safety pin and having on its exterior surface a non-cutting bearing for a suspending means, the bore of one tube being greater than the bore'of the other tube.

WILLIAM s. HUNKINS.

Witnesses:

V. G. SEARLES, r C. W. HAWKINS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents;

Washington, D. G. 

